From a baby killed in the third month.
Thousands of abortions happen at this stage every week.
Share on FacebookCategory: Fetal Development
American unborn babies learn “acoustic structure of English” while in the womb
“The Associated Press reported a study showing “babies start learning about their language-to-be before they are born.” Studies show that while in their mothers’ wombs, “fetuses heard, perceived, listened and learned something about the acoustic structure of American English.”
Cited in Christian Action Council’s Action Line, March-April 1991 From
Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)
Share on FacebookNew ultrasound images in 4D give “pause and admiration”
A reporter spoke about advances in ultrasound technology that produced very clear fetal images:
“While such images won’t quell the abortion debate anytime soon, their beauty alone deserves pause and admiration.”
JULIAN KESNER Life as you’ve never seen itNew York Daily News October 12, 2006
Above three pictures: Legal to abort in every US state.
Below: Legal to abort in some states.
Share on Facebook
Dr. Landrum Shettles on Fetal development
Dr. Landrum Shettles (Rites of Life,The Scientific Evidence for Life Before Birth, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1983) described the activities and development of the fetus in utero from the third month on, based on his own observations:
“Activity is far from merely random, by the end of the [third month]. There is a purpose in what the fetus does. It is already practising for life outside the womb. Brain development is sufficiently advanced that the fetus can react to touch, turn its head, kick its legs, flex its wrists, make fists and even curl its toes. It also sucks its thumbs and swallows amniotic fluid, getting ready for the day when it will have something more substantial to consume. It practices breathing, even though it still has no air; using features that are no distinctly baby-like, the fetus begins to perfect some of the facial expressions by which is till later let its parents know its moods, its likes and its dislikes.”
…..
By the end of the third month all arteries are present, including the coronary vessels of the heart. Blood is circulating through these vessels to all body parts. The heart beat ranges during the fetal period from 110 to 160 beats per minute. All blood cells are produced by the liver and spleen, a job soon taken over by the bone marrow. White blood cells, important for immunity, are formed in the lymph nodes and thymus.
During the fourth, fifth and six months, the fetus more than quadruples its weight, going from one ounce to as many as seven ounces. By the end of the sixteenth week, it is likely to be six inches or more in length. During the fourth month the ears begin functioning, and the heart is pumping several quarts of blood each day.
The fifth month adds about two more inches of growth. The fetus may weigh a pound, and if born prematurely at one of the best neonatology centres has a 70 percent chance of survival. By the end of the fifth month, fingernails and toenails are present and growing, and the nipples have appeared in the mammary glands of both sexes.
In the sixth month, movement, which
began much earlier, becomes more pronounced. Hair follicles and sweat glands develop. Cartilage gives way to real bone. The eyelids are open. The fetus weighs almost two pounds and by
the end of the second trimester will measure a foot in length.
Abortion: A briefing book for Canadian Legislators, National Public Affairs Office, Campaign life coalition, Suite 100, 1355 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1Y 3C2
Share on FacebookBaby does “somersault” and “backflip”
From “The Facts of Life” (Norcross, GA: Human Development Resource Council), 2:
“[At 9 weeks the baby has] already perfected a somersault, backflip, and scissor kick.”
Read more about how the baby develops in the womb here.
Share on FacebookFetal development in the 7th week
“In its seventh week [the unborn baby] bears the familiar external features and all the internal organs of the adult…The brain in configuration is already like the adult brain and sends out impulses that coordinate the functions of other organs…The heart beats sturdily. The stomach produces digestive juices. The liver manufactures blood cells and the kidneys begin to function by extracting uric acid from the child’s blood…The muscles of the arms and body can already be set in motion. After the eighth week…everything is already present that will be found in the full-term baby.”
From a group of scientists, physicians and professors released amicus curiae brief (95:13-14)
Scientists for Life, Inc. and Edward C. Freiling “The Position of Modern Science on the Beginning of Human Life, Faxton, VA: Sun Life, 1983) p 17
This tiny, recognizable, perfect little hand is a scrap left over from an abortion done at 7 weeks after conception. Nearly 15,000 abortions happen at this stage every week.
See more pictures of babies aborted at 7 weeks here.
Share on FacebookUnborn baby has organs and features in the 7th week
“In its seventh week [the unborn baby] bears the familiar external features and all the internal organs of the adult…The brain in configuration is already like the adult brain and sends out impulses that coordinate the functions of other organs…The heart beats sturdily. The stomach produces digestive juices. The liver manufactures blood cells and the kidneys begin to function by extracting uric acid from the child’s blood…The muscles of the arms and body can already be set in motion. After the eighth week…everything is already present that will be found in the full-term baby.”
From a group of scientists, physicians and professors who released amicus curiae brief (95:13-14)
“Scientists for Life, Inc. and Edward C. Freiling “The Position of Modern Science on the Beginning of Human Life, Faxton, VA: Sun Life, 1983) p 17
See what a baby at this age looks like after being aborted.
Share on FacebookBaby (Embryo) at 45 days has internal organs
Lennart Nilsson, who is known for his photographs of unborn babies and his book A Child Is Born, in “Drama of Life before Birth” he says that the unborn baby at 45 days after conception:
“Though the embryo now weighs only 1/30 of an ounce, it has all the internal organs of the adult in various stages of development. It already has a little mouth with lips, an early tongue and buds for 20 milk teeth. It’s [sic] sex and reproductive organs have begun to sprout.”
Lennart Nilsson, “Drama of Life before Birth,” Life, April 30, 1965
“Father of the Fetology” Speaks
Dr. A W Liley, known as the Father of Fetology:
“This then is our picture of the fetus. He does not live in a padded, unchanging cocoon in a state of total sensory deprivation, but in a plastic, reactive structure which buffers and filters, perhaps distorts, but does not eliminate the outside world. Nor is the fetus itself inert and stuporose, but active and responsive.”
A W Liley “The Feotus As a Personality” in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, volume 6 number two (June 1972) 99 – 100
Read about what Dr. Liley says about fetal development here.
Read about when the baby can feel, recognize voices, and dream
Former abortionist describes 12 week old unborn baby
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist, describing a 12-week-old unborn baby:
“Now this little person, at 12 weeks, is a fully formed, absolutely identifiable human being. He has had brain waves for at least six weeks; his heart has been functioning for perhaps eight weeks; and all the rest of his human functions are indistinguishable from any of ours.”
Transcript of John Ankerberg Show February 25th, 1990
Below:From a 12 week unborn baby after being aborted:
Read more quotes by Bernard Nathanson
Share on Facebook